You were SUPPOSED to go to the coffee shop for your quarterly content-and-launch planning day, but your kids left a giant mess in the kitchen….
….And you’re wondering if you should cancel the biz planning to clean up the kitchen before your husband gets home and suggests that you “prioritize better” (again).
‘Cause you REALLY hate the implications that you’re skipping out on your “tidy house” responsibilities to go play business owner (as if the two roles can’t go together) – especially when it’s your KIDS’ fault that the kitchen is messy, not yours.
(Didn’t we agree that our kids aren’t going to be free-loaders? Why are you blaming ME for their mess?!)
This kind of guilt trip (or marital expectations friction) can really do a number on your business, ‘cause you’re directly undermining your “dream bigger, play bigger” CEO self.
(Not to mention shrinking every single marketing, hiring, and selling action you WERE going to take.)
And no business can grow – let alone survive – if its leader is actively second-guessing each part of her work day based on “what’s my husband going to think.”
Listen, you’re past this.
You STARTED this business in the first place so you could carve out your own corner to excel in. To have something just for you, without getting his say-so about every little detail of it.
So why are you letting the household guilt derail you into squishing back into that “just a housewife” box?
I mean, housewife with a side hustle, true, but that’s a FAR cry from what you imagined this business to be.
(You were thinking more like “$250k a year” and “knock his socks off.”)
But don’t worry – all it takes is redrawing the boundary line between work and personal (which includes kids!), so that it’s clear what part the KIDS are playing in the chore division once again….
Aka, getting your partner OFF your back about the house tidiness, and ON theirs.
(He can go use his dad energies on inspecting bathroom cleaning and critiquing their kettle scrubbing!)
But first, YOU as the mompreneur have to be super clear on what you want your day to look like. Minus all the mom guilt.
- What does your CEO role require from you right now?
- Do you even have space for managing the housework responsibilities?
- Or do you need a complete break from that side of life, and a hand-off plan for your preteens so that THEY’RE the ones dealing with the cooking and cleaning?
(Neither the laundry nor the Instapot-prepping is that hard, you know….)
See, once you can separate yourself from the “must happen” family management tasks, it’s easy to ID the “doesn’t require grownup level knife skills” line items and outsource them to your minions.
Because you’re simultaneously holding the “big hairy goal” vision for your company, AND for your preteens’ adulting readiness.
Since the former won’t happen if you keep sidelining the goal-setting sessions to scrub showers…..
….But the latter will never appear if your kids never touch a stove burner or button on the washer.
And it’s SO okay for you to be the counter-cultural mom who demands they do their own laundry, starting at 9 years old.
(No matter how much they croak that their friends never have to touch the washing machine.)
Sorry, I’m mom, and I KNOW you’re going to need to know how to stain treat your laundry, get berry juice off of the floor, and fry eggs for yourself (plus scrape out the pan).
You’ll thank me 20 years later.
Because what your kids do NOT need is a mom who loves them so much, she does EVERYTHING for them – turning them into helpless little “baby” adults, who make a TERRIBLE partner the first time they burn dinner and have to cook something else on the fly.
Okay, and you ALSO need to know that all the house cleaning’s been taken care of – without YOU having to oversee every single second of it – and THAT’S going to get done WHEN you lean on the power of scheduling.
Scheduling in THEIR chores, not yours.
And inside my “free up 20 hours a week” program, I’m going to create the just-right schedule that fits YOUR family’s chore needs (and ages and extracurricular activities) – without YOU having to do a thing.
‘Cause that’s what happens when you outsource it to ME.
YOU are looking at the big picture – the family-plus-business picture – and it DOESN’T include you wiping every crumb off the counter while they enjoy the fruits of your multi-6-figure labor.
‘Cause it’s tough to feel like you’re not successful – not satisfied with each day’s work – like you’re not at peace within your own business.
So let’s personalize time management to YOU – housefull of kids, in-progress chore delegation, and all.
DM me when you’re ready to stop putting up with “too busy” as a mompreneur.
